School Of Bluegrass Guitar

This book helps guitarists who are currently stuck playing simple melodies develop fiddle-tune-like solos to bluegrass songs and tunes. Thirteen songs are presented in both a simple “Carter-style” melody-basedarrangementfollowed by a more “fleshed out” fiddle-style arrangement. Using the licks and concepts presented here, guitarists can develop their own unique solos to popular songs. “Angeline the Baker” is presented in aspecialfour-part arrangement that details how to take a simple quarter-note-type melody and develop it into a full eighth-note-based flatpicking solo.

CONTENTS

• Long Journey Home
• Sweet Sunny South
• Red Rocking Chair
• Little Rosewood Casket
• Roll in My Sweet Baby?s Arms
• Two Little Boys
• Little Bessie
• Little Birdie
• The Wreck of the Old 97
• Hard Times
• Angeline the Baker
• Sourwood Mountain
• AJack of Diamonds